ansible-role-gnome's Introduction

Ansible GNOME Role - ansible-role-gnome

Ansible role that manages a GNOME installation and associated services.

This will install a full GNOME desktop, using the Gnome Shell. The packages used for this are all customizable.

Additional things this role will do:

Enable the Gnome Display Manager.
Set default dconf values for all users.
Install and enable gnome shell extensions.

Requirements

This role was developed and tested on Ansible 2.2.0 and higher. It may work on lower versions but that is currently unsupported.

Currently Arch Linux is a requirement although it may become more generic in the future.

Role Variables

Name	Type	Default	Choices	Description
gnome_aur_helper	string		pacaur / yaourt	AUR helper utility to use with "Arch Linux Updates Indicator" (if installed).
gnome_input_sources	list	['xkb','se']		Input source, or keyboard layout that Gnome will use. This is a list within a list.
gnome_packages	list	(big list of packages)		Packages that will form the basis of the Gnome desktop.

# A list of dictionaries is used to define what extensions to install
# and for which users it should be enabled.
gnome_shell_extensions:
  - id: '1010'
    users: ['username']

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Set the keyboard layout to us by default, while leaving se enabled.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: AsavarTzeth.gnome
      gnome_input_sources:
        - ['xkb','us']
        - ['xkb','se']

Use all core gnome packages and nothing else. Note that meta package names vary between distributions.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: AsavarTzeth.gnome
      gnome_packages: ['gnome']

Install the Arch Linux Updates Indicator extension and use pacaur to enable updates for AUR packages. Changes will be limited to the foobar user.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: AsavarTzeth.gnome
      gnome_aur_helper: pacaur
      gnome_shell_extensions:
        - id: '1010'
          users: ['foobar']